How strongly does our metabolism influence thinking? This question has been examined by Dr. Philipp Haueis, a philosopher of ...

Brain cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes represent a specialised set of metabolic proteins that, while less abundant than their hepatic counterparts, play an increasingly acknowledged role in the local ...

The human brain has a sweet tooth, burning through nearly one-quarter of the body's sugar energy, or glucose, daily. Now, researchers at Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco (UCSF) have shed new ...

How does blood chemistry differ between those who are more active and less active? How is fitness linked to molecular changes ...

Researchers have found that neurons can burn and even make their own fat to power the brain. A faulty protein stops this ...

Schulman, Ph.D. Researchers have shown that brain imaging scans assessing alterations in metabolic activity and local blood ...

A new open-source model of brain metabolism, developed by scientists at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), has shown how altering key chemicals could restore aged cells to their youthful ...

People who work the nightshift or odd hours and eat at irregular times are more prone to weight gain and diabetes, likely due to eating patterns not timed with natural daylight and when people ...

A new study published in Clinical Nutrition suggests that daily consumption of skin-roasted peanuts improves brain vascular ...

More than a century ago, Alois Alzheimer noted unusual changes in brain fats, which he described as "lipoid granules," along ...